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Online Native Plant Center for the Chesapeake Bay Region
This new online Native Plant Center for the Chesapeake Bay Region is a user-friendly tool to identify and select native plant species for habitat restoration in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Native plants thrive without fertilizers that pollute the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem. Visit Native Plant Center, to search for native plants by name, plant type, sun exposure, soil texture and moisture, and find native plants with similar shape, color, size or other characteristics as favorite non-native plants. There's also a geo-locator feature to identify plants suited to a user's specific location. The portal uses the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service's native plant database, associated with the publication "Native Plants for Wildlife Habitat and Conservation Landscaping: Chesapeake Bay Watershed," which you can download from the site.